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C. J. ADDY.

Tobacco Cutter.

No. 62,799. Patented March t2, 1867.

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T0 ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE vPRESENTS SHALL COME:-

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. ADDY, of Roxbury, in thevcounty ofNorfolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an improved'Tobacco-Cutter, and do hereby declare the4 same to be fully described inthe following specification, and represented in the accompanyingdrawings, of whichv Figure 1 isa top view.

Figure 2, a side elevation.

Figure 3, a longitudinal section; and

Figure' 4, an end elevation of it.

The purpose of my invention is to enable a sheet of tobacco, however itmay vary in thickness, to be cut upv intov smaller portions. 'Themachine is also useful for cutting several strips or pieces into smallerones' at one operation. v v

In the drawings, A 'denotes a table or bed-plate, from the top of whichtwo standards, e e, project vertically, and serve to support ahorizontal shaft, d, having a lever, B, aii'xed to one of itsextremities, and carrying a knife, a, arranged in a'vertical planeagainst the end' of the table, or the outer extremities of `two parallelguides, Z Z, erected on the said table. Between the said guides Il is vafeeder, C, which is a bar of metalaf-Xed atrig-ht angles to one end of along rack, lc, which rests against anguille, o, and engages with apinion, z', fixed to thelower surface of a ratchet, h, which is arrangedover the rack k and the table in manner-as represented.

With the teeth of the said ratchet, which roiec't from its u er surfaceand close to its ieri 'her a drawawl l P i PP l P y: P 7

g, engages, such pawl being hinged or jointed to an arm j', projectiing`from the sha-ftd. .The pawlis.bifureated to receive the arm, the prongsgg, of the bifurcation, being each bent at va right angle orthere-abouts with the rest of the pawl. I'lwo or more holes, yy, aremade through each portion so bent, and also through the arm, the samebeing sor 'that a pin, 71, may be passed at different distaiiceslfrointhe axisof the shaft through the said arm 'and ben't parts. The saidbends of the prongs, together with their holes and the holes of the arm,are for the purpose 0f enabling the feed or degree of movement ofthefeeder be varied more or less, circumstances may require, for thefurther the joint pinp is arranged from the axis of the shaft,thegrea-ter will be each motion of the draw pawl, provided the motionsof the knife-lever are constantl or alike. Astud, c, projecting from thelever B, in manner as shown in figs. 1 and 4, by contact with the tableduring the upward movement of' the said lever, serves to arrest suolimovement. v In like manner another stud, r, ext-ending from the lever,as shown in tig. l, by contact with the table during a downward movementof the lever, will operate to arrest such latter mov-ement. A presser,D, composed of a series of springs, 'n n a n, aixed to a cross-bar, m,joined'at its ends to two bent arms E E, is arranged with respectto theknife and the feeder in manner vas exhibited in the drawings. Thesaidtwo arms are placed against the outer sides of the guides ZZ, and areconnected to such `nidos by Ljoin t-pins m m, which go through the armsand are screwed into the guides, the same being se ns te enable thepressel to be moved up and down in order to arrange itsl springs nearerto or further from the n) er surface of the bed as nia be desirable. Inorder to fix the )resser at different elevaf tions, relatively to thebed-plate,l a series of holes',` s s, is made in one or each oftheguides, they being arranged so as to enable either of them to receivea pin, t, passed through one of the arms E E. The journals a u of theratchet-shaft n are duly supported within the table, and a bracket, "w,affixed thereto.4 Furthermore, a stopv or hook, .'v, projecting from theouter end of the rack c, serves to arrest the forward movement of thefeeder at' the proper time.

In operating with the above-described machine, the tobacco is to be laid,en the table and between the guides l Z, and in advance of the feeder.Next the handieoi'the knifedever B i? to be 'laid hold of, and suchlever should be raised `and depressed. The act of elevating the leverwill cause the feeding mechanism to advance thetobacco underneath thesprings of the presser andthe cutting edge of the knife, when itwillremain stationary until the knife may have beenforced downward andbeen caused to ont through it. During the descent ofthe knife thedraw-pawl will slide over the yteeth of the ratchet So as tobe againread.)r to movehe ratchet during the next elevatioirof the knife-lever.v

In the said machine, I claim 'es of my invention, the following, viz:

I claim the Acombimton of the adjusting arms E E and setting pint'and'holes es, orgtlrie equivalent thereof, with the presser D,combined with a knife, a, Vand feeder'C,.arrangedI te operatesstantalllyvasvspeciied I I also claim the above-*described arrangementofphe rack k, the pinina', ratchet h, and draW-pdwlg, .With the presserD,'the feeder C, the knife a, or knife-lever B, and its shaf: d.

And in -coinbinati'on with the knife-lever B,'shaft CZ, arm f, drawjpawg, ratchet h, the pinion z', rack lc, and the feederC, I claim themechanism for Varying'thefeed as described, such mechanism consisting ofthe bent prongs g g, of the draw-pawl, with the pin p, andthe holes y yarranged in the prongs, and the said arm.4

f, as specified. 4

,l CHAS. J. ADDY..

Witnesses:

,R, H. EDDY,

F. P. HALE, Jr.

